Adjustable truss



Jan. 25, 1949. F. G. MCCORD 2,460,100

ADJUSTABLE TRUS S Filed Dec. 2, 1946 m MMM@ ATTE! RN EYB Patented Jan.25, 1949 UNl-TEosrA'rEs PATENT orties ADJUSTABLE vrRUss Frank G. McCord,Atlanta, Ga. Application December 2, 1946, Serial No. 713,399

(Cl. 12S-95) 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in trusses for hernia or, as itis commonly known, rupture, and has for one of its objects the provisionof an adjustable truss that can be set to exert pressure in the localityon the wearers body providing the most comfort and relief.

Other adjustable trusses have been placed in use but none has the simpleoperation of the truss designed in accordance with the invention. Thetrusses now in use fory double ruptures consist of two steels or twobands passing around both sides of the body to carry the front pads, ofwhich there are usually two in number on the front of the body.

An important object of this invention, therefore, is to provide a trussusing only a single steel, passing around one side of the body only, tosupport two pads on the front of the body for a double rupture. The useof a single steel for a single pad is well known in this art, but it isbelieved that the use of a single steel to support two pads at the frontof the body for a double rupture is an advance over the use of a singlesteel for the single rupture type of truss.

With the above and other objects and advan tages in view, the inventionconsists of the novel details of construction, arrangement andcombination of parts more fully hereinafter described, claimed andillustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational plan View of a double truss embodying theinvention, with the pads shown indotted lines;

Figure 2 is an elevational front View of a pad partly broken away,showing the means for attaching the pad to truss wire frame in dottedlines;

Figure 3 is an elevational plan view of a double type truss in place onthe human body;

Figure 4 is the same of a single type truss;

Figure 5 is a detail showing a side elevational view of one end of thetruss on an enlarged scale, and with parts broken away, illustrating themeans for attaching pads to the truss.

Figure 6 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a vertical view on the line 1-1 of Figure 6, showing thesleeve in position to provide one arc of movement of the pad attachingmeans;

Figure 8 is the other arc of movement of the means; and

Figure 9 is a perspective view of the sleeve for controlling the swingof the pad.

same as Figure '7showing anpad attaching Referring more in detail to thedrawing, the reference numeral I0 designates the substantially U-shapedtruss wire which, as shown in Figures 3 and 4, is provided with acovering II of rubber or other suitable material.

One end of the wire is threaded at I2 to receive the pad I3 which restson the back of the wearers body, and the other end is threaded at I4 fora greater distance than at I2, to receive the pads I5 and I5 which reston the front of the wearers body.

Each pad is provided with plates I6 and I1 respectively which are joinedat their inner central longitudinal edges by the internally threadedboss I8, and each plate has extended projections I9 at its outermostends to more firmly seat the plates in the pad after fasteners forsecuring the pads to the plates have passed through the openings 20 inthe plates.

The boss I8 of each pad is threaded onto its respective end of the wireIll until the pad I3 rests comfortably on the wearers body, and the padsI5 and I5 are properly located as to the hernia of the wearer. To retainthe pads in their position on the wire I0, there is provided for eachpad the sleeve 2|, which is loosely mounted on the wire I0. The sleevesare provided with opposed tapered slots 22 at the end nearest the padswhich receive the ends of the plates I6 and I1 therein, and a set screw23 is provided in the sleeve 2 I, which retains the pad in adjustedlongitudinal position, but permits the pad to swing in a small arc onthe wire I0. By adjusting the sleeve, the arc can be controlled as shownin Figures 7 and 8.

In Figure 3, there is shown the double type of truss, as applied to therepresentation of the human body, as shown at 24, and in Figure 4, thereis shown the single type of truss which merely eliminates the use of theforemost pad I5 in its use. Thus the truss can be used as a single ordouble type truss, as desired by the wearer thereof.

This particular type of truss eliminates the use of any strap or otherdevices to hold the pads in position on the wearers body, and willremain in place regardless of the movement of the wearers body, the padsswinging slightly on the wire to prevent the pads digging into thewearers body at each movement thereof.

It is believed that from the foregoing description, the operation andconstruction of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in theart, and it is also to be understood that changes in the minor detailsof construction, arrangepad, and means also threaded on each of said A nthreaded ends of the wire and having a slot' therein to receive itscomplementary plate for limiting the rocking movement of the plate onthe wire.

2. In a truss, the combination which comprises a substantially U-shapedtruss wire having threaded ends, a plate having an internally threadedcentrally-disposed boss integral there- 4 with and threaded on each ofthe ends of the wire for rocking movement thereon, and an internallythreaded sleeve on each of the ends of the Wire having opposed taperedslots therein, said sleeves being threaded on the ends of said wire, andso positioned thereon that the slots receive the ends of the plates tolimit the rocking movement of said plates.

F. G. MCCORD.

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